Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying out her problem as she had done scores of times before. Few minutes later Howard Fey made his last call. He was over the Layton marker, 18 miles north of the field. The operator knew his next move would be a turn to the left, into the "A" Zone, a swing back on the beam, an easy letdown from the north into the field. But nothing happened...
...General Marshall and the Army guard in the Canal Zone well knew, the next one might be timed to block the Canal...
...believes, a matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
Greely Summers, Harvard's punting tailback, led the attack by scoring two touchdowns and two conversions himself. Gus Bigwood made Harvard's other score on a sensational 80-yard gallop to the end zone. Jack Sweeny carried over for Northeastern's lone tally in the final period...
...shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose interest in the sea is less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard ship without benefit of plot may seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography...